Ello

@emp@meadyreade After using it for a while I think it's unlikely to really become a replacement for a mainstream social network like Facebook (though who knows, the future is not as predictable as people like to think). But as you point out, the lack of visual hierarchy I actually think can be a plus --- it does encourage exploration and it also makes text posts look less daunting, because they visually break into paragraphs rather than looking like gigantic blobs (which is what happens when you put a boundary around them). That's an observation my designer friend Heather Anne Halpert --- @mittenstheladywrester --- made about the site, and it fits with one of my design intuitions about it.